{"id":9018,"date":"2016-06-29T14:43:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=9018"},"modified":"2016-06-29T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T14:55:30","slug":"ab-fab-movie-ape-van-goes-on-show-at-beaulieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9018","title":{"rendered":"Ab Fab Movie Ape van goes on show at Beaulieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Piaggio Ape\u00a0getaway van\u00a0used by Jennifer Saunders as Eddy and Joanna Lumley as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie has been put on show at Beaulieu.<\/p>\n<p>It will join other\u00a0well-known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5065\">television<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6797\">movie cars<\/a> in the\u00a0<em>On Screen Stars<\/em>\u00a0exhibition at the National Motor museum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9019\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9019\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ab Fab Piaggio Ape van\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-1-sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-1-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-1-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9019\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Piaggio Ape van used in Ab Fab: The Movie has gone on display in the On Screen Stars exhibition at Beaulieu.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie\u00a0<\/em>makes its international premiere on June 29th and goes on general release in the UK on\u00a0July 1st. The Ape is\u00a0already on display, so visitors can see this new attraction even before\u00a0its debut on the silver screen.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with the plot of this\u00a0film, then here it is. Patsy and Eddy are living the high life in London when they accidentally drown Kate Moss in the Thames. The resulting\u00a0media storm (and presumably police investigation) see them flee, penniless, to\u00a0the French Riviera. There, they hatch a plan\u00a0that will enable them to live the high life in France.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably that&#8217;s where the Ape\u00a0makes its appearance:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ab Fab Piaggio Ape getaway van\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-2-sm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-2-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ab-fab-piaggio-ape-2-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If Ab Fab is your cup of tea, then it will be in cinemas from Friday. The Ape is already at Beaulieu as part of the <em>On Screen Stars<\/em>\u00a0exhibition at the National Motor Museum. Admission is\u00a0included in the Beaulieu admission price. More details at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaulieu.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.beaulieu.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Piaggio Ape\u00a0getaway van\u00a0used by Jennifer Saunders as Eddy and Joanna Lumley as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie has been put on show at Beaulieu. It will join other\u00a0well-known television and movie cars in the\u00a0On Screen Stars\u00a0exhibition at the National Motor museum. Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie\u00a0makes its international premiere on June 29th and goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[2020,2019],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9024,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}